Herdsmen attack 17 victims in Nasarawa

17 victims  butchered by herders in Tiv towns in the Southern Senatorial Districts of Nasarawa state were yesterday given mass entombment in the midst of tears.





Around seven of the casualties were covered at the Christian cementary in Lafia while 10 got covered in mass grave at Keana, base camp of Keana Local Government Area of the state.

Our reporter accumulated that the individuals who were covered in mass graves are the ones whose dead body have begun breaking down at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital big shot in Lafia because of the matchet cut on their body.

The raiding herders, have in the planned attacts in five days running, killed no less than eighty Tiv villagers.





President Tiv Youth association in Nasarawa state, confidant Peter Ahemba told columnists in Lafia that the administration of the Tiv people group in Nasarawa state was left with no choice than to cover the casualties outside their places of homestead the Tiv convention as the weapon using herders were all the while laying attack in the Tiv abandoned towns unhindered.


As indicated by him "We were left with no alternative than to cover the casualties outside their places of homes  the Tiv towns have all been sacked and the trespassers are as yet possessing the majority of them so we couldn't bear the cost of gambling more lives in going to cover those casualties in their places of residence requested by our convention






"This is moreso that the bodies had just begun breaking down at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist healing facility Lafia because of blockage at the clinic morgue" he said

The Tiv youth pioneer additionally clarified that separated from those covered enmass yesterday, numerous different casualties had before been covered at various areas crosswise over Awe, Keana, Obi and Doma Local Government Areas of the State, even as look for the recuperation of more setbacks was continuous in the influenced groups.